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"    SATSG Laura hit Virgin Media V Festival to test her festival pulling skills I LOVE a festival. You get to see loads of bands, wear ridiculous clothing, drink an actual billion and invent entirely new and possibly quite dangerous dance moves (the last two facts may be in some way linked). You get the satisfaction of successfully setting up a tent (men - who needs them?), the excitement of creating a little home from home (I like to pack a blow up mattress, pillows and duvet for maximum comfort, and set up a wardrobe area in the porch). So far, so entirely fun. But are they actually any good for pulling? Is it all guards down, loved up, snogs a go go? Or more &amp;#039;Who is that crazy drunken girl and why has she pinned a fox tail to her shorts&amp;#039;? Well this weekend I hit V Festival to find out. Prepped with a new hairstyle and an actual new face of makeup - thanks Essensuals and the MAC makeup team for those - I was ready to face the flirting day with confidence. For some reason I also ended up carrying a moustache on a stick. Hmmm. A few rum based cocktails might&amp;#039;ve helped too. And from there, the classic festival pulling experience unfolded in full. And there is a lot to be said in its favour. Firstly the festival itself sorts the wheat from the chaff like a kind of musical dating sieve, as we experienced while walking through the droves of people unhappy to hear that Dappy (boo) had been replaced by the Charlatans (yay) last minute. So effectively, you&amp;#039;re already standing around a load of guys that you have at least basic taste in common before you even speak to them. Then there&amp;#039;s the fact that everyone gets a bit emotional (and/or drunken) during the sets, singing along in a properly meaning it way, and generally being super friendly and approachable, whether they&amp;#039;re offering to take group photos of you and your mates or giving you &amp;#039;shoulders&amp;#039; so you get a better view (my FAVOURITE). And the whole gloves off, rule-less, etiquette-free nature of it all that means you can go from smile to snog in the space of a couple of songs if you so wish and they are exceptionally pretty AS SO MANY OF THEM ARE. But annoyingly in life (and especially with rum based cocktails) you can have too much of a good thing. So while the super relaxed festival vibez mean you can dance around like an actual mental, wear some kind of giant flower hat as though it&amp;#039;s entirely normal, make grand statements like &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m the World&amp;#039;s Greatest Kisser&amp;#039; and still have snogs ON TAP, you won&amp;#039;t do anything as sensible as actually swap numbers with the guy you&amp;#039;ve spent hours kissing in a tent. So if you know of a cute, ginger ad exec called Barney who isn&amp;#039;t too traumatised by the weekend&amp;#039;s events let me know. I&amp;#039;m pretty sure I&amp;#039;ve still got his sleeping bag. Have you gone festival pulling this year? Tweet me @laurajanecosmo HERE&amp;#039;S OUR TOP TIPS FOR HOT FESTIVAL SEX! CHECKOUT THE HOT FESTIVAL FASHION AT THIS YEAR&amp;#039;S V! SHOULD YOU TRY COMEDY SPEED DATING? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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